102 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Duncan. Dismay’d not this 
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo ? 
Soldier. Yes; 
As sparrows, eagles; 
Macbeth, Act i. Scene 2. 
WREN. 
Bottom . The wren with little quill; 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 1. 
Sir Toby. Look where the youngest wren of nine 
comes. 
Twelfth Night, Act iii. Scene 2. 
King Henry. . . thinks he that the chirping 
of a wren, 
By crying comfort from a hollow breast, 
Can chase away the first-conceived sound? 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iii. Scene 2. 
Gloucester. . . . the world is grown so bad 
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch : 
King Richard III., Act i. Scene 3. 
Diojiyza. Be one of those that think 
The pretty wrens of Tharsus will fly hence, 
And open this to Pericles. 
Pericles, Act iv. Scene 4. 
Lady Macduff. . . . the poor wren, 
The most diminutive of birds, will fight, 
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. 
Macbeth, Act iv. Scene 2. 
